‘He doesn’t understand that he’s struggling with the way I felt’ – university students, psychosocial disability and disclosure in the Western Cape, South Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Richard Vergunst ◽  
Leslie Swartz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
University Students ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Psychosocial Disability ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Christopher Stroud
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context ◽  
A Priority ◽  
The University ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
The Way

There is an urgency in theorising howdiversity is negotiated, communicated,and disputed as a matter of everydayordinariness that is compounded by theclear linkages between diversity, transformation,voice, agency, poverty andhealth. The way in which difference iscategorised, semiotised and reconfiguredin multiple languages across quotidianencounters and in public and media forumsis a central dynamic in how povertyand disadvantage are distributed and reproducedacross social and racial categorisations.In the South African context,finding ways of productively harnessingdiversity in the building of a better societymust be a priority.

scholarly journals Social values as determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among university students in Cape Town – South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivence Kalitanyi ◽  
Dick Jacobus (Kobus) Visser
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Cape Peninsula

An empirical study was conducted in Cape Town – South Africa – to determine whether social values (family, parents’ work and education) have an impact on entrepreneurship students in the universities of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, and University of the Western Cape, as well as Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The paper reviewed the literature about the role social values plays in the people’s lives. Respondents were the entrepreneurship university students. Data were collected in classrooms, and, in most cases, with the facilitation of both the lecturer and the researcher. Bivariate and multivariate tests of statistical significance were conducted, while Cronbach’s Alpha was used to measure the reliability of the research tool. Findings suggest that social values of the university students have an impact on their entrepreneurial intentions. The paper ends with recommendations to universities, entrepreneurship lecturers, parents, government and businesses, as well as civil society organizations. Keywords: social values, entrepreneurship intentions, university students, Cape Town. JEL Classification: Y4

Waterpipe and Cigarette Smoking among University Students in the Western Cape, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Kruger ◽  
Corné van Walbeek ◽  
Nicole Vellios
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
University Students ◽  
Western Cape

scholarly journals Transdisciplinary service-learning for construction management and quantity surveying students

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Pinfold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quantity Surveying ◽  
The Way

The transformation of higher education in South Africa has seen higher education institutions become more responsive to community matters by providing institutional support for service-learning projects. Despite service-learning being practised in many departments at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), there is a significant difference in the way service-learning is perceived by academics and the way in which it should be supported within the curriculum. This article reflects on a collaborative transdisciplinary service-learning project at CPUT that included the Department of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. The aim of the transdisciplinary service-learning project was for students to participate in an asset-mapping exercise in a rural communal settlement in the Bergrivier municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. In so doing students from the two departments were gradually inducted into the community. Once inducted, students were able to identify the community’s most urgent needs. During community engagement students from each department were paired together. This allowed transdisciplinary learning to happen with the exploration of ideas from the perspectives of both engineering and urban planning students. Students were able to construct meaning beyond their discipline. Cooperation and synergy between the departments allowed mutual, interchangeable, cooperative interaction with community members. Outcomes for the transdisciplinary service-learning project and the required commitment from students are discussed.

La Traviata Affair

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Roos
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Colored People ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Group A ◽  
La Traviata ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
Opera Production ◽  
The Way

Opera, race, and politics during apartheid South Africa form the foundation of this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a so-called colored cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Time of Apartheid charts Eoan’s opera activities from its inception in 1933 until the cessation of its work by 1980. By accepting funding from the apartheid government and adhering to apartheid conditions, the group, in time, became politically compromised, resulting in the rejection of the group by their own community and the cessation of opera production. However, their unquestioned acceptance of and commitment to the art of opera lead to the most extraordinary of performance trajectories. During apartheid, the Eoan Group provided a space for colored people to perform Western classical art forms in an environment that potentially transgressed racial boundaries and challenged perceptions of racial exclusivity in the genre of opera. This highly significant endeavor and the way it was thwarted at the hands of the apartheid regime is the story that unfolds in this book.

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